20 Top Free Responsive WordPress Themes

Although one would struggle to argue that responsive design isn’t the future, that is not to say that all sites must be responsive. In my opinion, there are a handful of reasons as to why one might not choose to “go responsive”, which I revealed in my first post on responsive design earlier this year.

One of the reasons was the potential cost-benefit (or lack thereof). If the costs associated with responsive design are not matched or exceeded by the extra income generated, one might think twice about going responsive.

However, you can largely circumvent this issue by using one of the free responsive themes available on WordPress.org. If you have the will and the technical ability to do a bit of tinkering and are not looking for a top-quality premium/bespoke design, you could be up and running with a responsive theme at no extra financial cost.

With that in mind, I thought I’d trawl through the WordPress.org theme repository and pull up a selection of the best responsive themes currently available. Enjoy!

Tom Ewer

Tom Ewer is the founder of WordCandy.co. He has been a huge fan of WordPress since he first laid eyes on it, and has been writing educational and informative content for WordPress users since 2011. When he's not working, you're likely to find him outdoors somewhere – as far away from a screen as possible!

sai kumar

Jessica Bright Verge

Presently I am using Juno WP theme, but i don’t know which one will be good for my website, my site Bright Verge is a news site, if you have some better choice for http://www.brightverge.com, please tell me. I need a beautiful and customized theme for SEO and clear and good font for readers.

Mursaleen

Tom

Sandy

Help!!

Looking for a free, responsive WordPress theme for a very busy grassroots education activist group. We have calls to action, information, links to articles that we must post regularly. Any suggestions? An events calendar would be wonderful, but I haven’t seen any. We post a lot of content so a strictly events calendar theme like Eventbrite wouldn’t work. Would Responsive work?

Implant n

Mramorov

WP_Ninja

Good collection Tom, I have tried Pagelines and some other famous theme frameworks, but I prefer to design themes from scratch using tools like TemplateToaster, it gives me a solid theme framework, flexibility to start from scratch, I can add/remove or design Widget Areas, Page Templates and much more http://www.templatetoaster.com

John carpenter

Peter shay

Great selection of themes. Only thing is that I cannot tell which theme offers changeable background image. So I have to load each one to discover this. It’s very time consuming. Other than that. Thanks very much.